'Colonel' (Moon Tickets Wanted)
"Boom----!"
The enormous explosion startled countless people inside and outside the hotel, and some even let out loud screams.
Chaos erupted in an instant, and panic followed almost immediately.
People cried out, screamed, shouted, and fled in all directions.
Outside the hotel, however, a patch of space suddenly rippled, causing two people to appear there.
"This... What...!?"
Kyoko seemed not to have recovered yet. She stared at the top-floor room of the hotel where the explosion had occurred, her eyes wide.
"They really got here fast."
Luo Zhen was likewise gazing at the place where he had been only a second earlier. As he watched the blazing fire, he narrowed his eyes.
In the direction of his gaze, something small was flying through the air around the hotel, weaving between the densely packed buildings.
It was not a bird. Rather, it looked like a large remote-controlled aircraft.
Of course, it was absolutely not a remote-controlled aircraft, but a Shikigami.
"Garuda!"
Kyoko saw the Shikigami and cried out its identity.
----"Garuda."
Its official name was----"ML28."
It was a limited-series Artificial Shikigami developed by the Onmyo Agency's Third Section of the Research and Development Department. It was classified as a general-purpose Shikigami capable of carrying out any command, the same type as the Ashura Suzuka had once used. In truth, however, it was a special model—a detection Shikigami that also came close to being a transport model.
Among standard Shikigami, there was a type known as a detection model. These Artificial Shikigami could share their five senses with their caster and were used for such tasks as long-distance investigations. Its name was----"WI2 Eye."
Likewise, among standard Shikigami, there was a transport model designed primarily for carrying items. Its name was----"WT2 Gull."
Garuda combined the functions of both. Though